History of Sanpete and Emery counties, Utah, with sketches of cities, towns, and villages, chronology of important events, records of Indian wars, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens . MAXTI PUBLIC SCHOOI. MT. PLEASANT PUBLIC SCHOOL. MOUNT PLEASANT. AMOUNT PLEASANT, as the name implies, is situ-/ I I ated upon a pleasant elevation, near the center * of the famous Granary of Utah, twenty-five milesnorth of Manti and 100 miles south of Salt Lake site was selected by the early pioneers of Sanpetecounty as the most delightful and commanding locationf
History of Sanpete and Emery counties, Utah, with sketches of cities, towns, and villages, chronology of important events, records of Indian wars, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens . MAXTI PUBLIC SCHOOI. MT. PLEASANT PUBLIC SCHOOL. MOUNT PLEASANT. AMOUNT PLEASANT, as the name implies, is situ-/ I I ated upon a pleasant elevation, near the center * of the famous Granary of Utah, twenty-five milesnorth of Manti and 100 miles south of Salt Lake site was selected by the early pioneers of Sanpetecounty as the most delightful and commanding locationfor an important commercial metropolis, and its rapidgrowth and permanent development fully demonstratesthat the locators were not deceived. In the early springof 1852 a company of the veterans of 19, from Manti,camped upon the ground now included in Mt. Pleasant,and began the building of the Queen City of colonists were commanded by Madison D. Hamil-ton, who erected a saw mill and began to cut. lumberfor building houses. In 1853 the Indians attacked thecolonists and drove away some cattle. The colony wasreinforced by militiamen from Utah county and assistedin harvesting their grain, when the settlement wasabandoned. The Indi
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